Customer Service

art;drawing;comics;comic performance;performance art;storytelling;call centre;labour;capitalism

Allaby, Patrickadvisor:Andison, Lois ; advisor:Cooper, Tara ; affiliation1:Faculty of Arts ; Cooper, Tara ; Andison, Lois ;

University of Waterloo

关键词: call centre;    art;    storytelling;    Master Thesis;    comics;    drawing;    capitalism;    comic performance;    performance art;    labour;   

Others  :  https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/bitstream/10012/14576/3/Allaby_Patrick.pdf

瑞士|英语

来源: UWSPACE Waterloo Institutional Repository

【 摘 要 】

Customer Service is a half-hour storytelling performance that uses PowerPoint and drawing to discuss my experience working at a call centre in Moncton, New Brunswick. The performance uses this autofictional narrative to discuss labour in late capitalism and the toll it can take on mental health. The piece serves as a platform to combine a variety of my interests, from storytelling and drawing to pop-music, animation, and experimental theatre. Ultimately all of these elements fold back into Customer Service and contribute to the work’s exploration of the tension between my personal need to escape capitalism and inability to do so.